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abu ghaith served as a main voice of al qaeda and was also bin laden's son-in-law. in video recordings, he urged muslims to fight the u.s. in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. he is expected to make an initial appearance tomorrow in federal court in new york. in syria, u.n. officials negotiated with the leader of a rebel group holding 21 u.n. peacekeepers. they were taken captive yesterday in a village in the golan heights. videos have since been posted online purportedly showing the peacekeepers saying that they are safe and being treated well. at the same time, there has been intense shelling in the area where they're being held. the first bill to curb u.s. gun violence began moving in the senate today. democrats on the judiciary commtee,oined one republican, voted to make illegal gun purchases a federal crime. violations would be punishable by up to 25 years in prison. the committee is also considering a ban on assault- style weapons and high capacity magazines, proposed by california democrat diane feinstein. >> these assault weapons have a great attraction for grie
abu ghaith served as a main voice of al qaeda and was also bin laden's son-in-law. in video recordings, he urged muslims to fight the u.s. in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. he is expected to make an initial appearance tomorrow in federal court in new york. in syria, u.n. officials negotiated with the leader of a rebel group holding 21 u.n. peacekeepers. they were taken captive yesterday in a village in the golan heights. videos have since been posted online purportedly showing the peacekeepers...
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the new law includes a near-ban on abortions after the 12th week of pregnancy. it's slated to take effect this summer, but a court challenge is certain. a small group of u.s. senators today filibustered the nomination of john brennan to be director of the c.i.a. they focused on whether the government would ever use drone aircraft to attack americans, inside the u.s. kentucky republican rand paul cited a letter from attorney general eric holder. it said drone strikes on u.s. soil might be considered in an extraordinary circumstance, such as 9/11. paul said he's alarmed. >> you can't take away someone's life and liberty without due process or an indictment. so it should trouble every american. i can't imagine that there wouldn't be an american in our country that would not be troubled that we're talking about killing non combatants in american with drone strikes. >> several other republicans joined the filibuster, as did oregon democrat ron wyden. he supports the brennan nomination, but he cited civil liberties concerns over the drone issue. meanwhile, attorney ge
the new law includes a near-ban on abortions after the 12th week of pregnancy. it's slated to take effect this summer, but a court challenge is certain. a small group of u.s. senators today filibustered the nomination of john brennan to be director of the c.i.a. they focused on whether the government would ever use drone aircraft to attack americans, inside the u.s. kentucky republican rand paul cited a letter from attorney general eric holder. it said drone strikes on u.s. soil might be...
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, wouldn't write the law, the damn liberals are writing the law. now we had if i'm not mistaken, the legislative process worked this well in 2006. we had 15,000 pages of testimony, 90 witnessesment by a 390-33 vote in the house and 98-0 vote in the senate they extended the law. and what has changed since then? the only thing i can see that has changed is that david suitor left the court and -- a leto joined the court now we get the activist conservative judges. david is right in the sense that the legal efforts to make it tough tore vote in places like pennsylvania where unfortunately for the republican senate leader in pennsylvania, was caught on tape saying this is how we're going to carry pennsylvania is to keep people from voting am we had a 102-year-old woman in florida who waited three and a half hours to vote. i mean t there is a need to-- and would say nationalizing the standards is probably -- >>. >> woodruff: but that wasn't the question. >> well, the administration was asked about this specifically and they said we don't want to do this.
, wouldn't write the law, the damn liberals are writing the law. now we had if i'm not mistaken, the legislative process worked this well in 2006. we had 15,000 pages of testimony, 90 witnessesment by a 390-33 vote in the house and 98-0 vote in the senate they extended the law. and what has changed since then? the only thing i can see that has changed is that david suitor left the court and -- a leto joined the court now we get the activist conservative judges. david is right in the sense that...
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and grow and what we talk about in the the book is example after example where they're breaking the law or where they're trampling the constitution. and the states have a role to play and i'm obviously an attorney general, i respect a state and we push back and the founders expected us to do that. that part is working. >> woodruff: you mentioned health care just now. you spent a lot of time in the book on health care. you as the attorney general of virginia were the very first to sue the obama administration over health care reform. fast forward a couple of years. a number of republican governors around the country are saying they are going to go along with the administration medicaid expansion. how do you see that? >> well, first of all it's worth remembering that in that health care case there were four constitutional arguments. the smaller government side won three of them. we won three of them. the only treason law is till standing is because the chief justice read the taxing power what was considered by any of us to be incredibly expansive and upheld this law with four other votes.
and grow and what we talk about in the the book is example after example where they're breaking the law or where they're trampling the constitution. and the states have a role to play and i'm obviously an attorney general, i respect a state and we push back and the founders expected us to do that. that part is working. >> woodruff: you mentioned health care just now. you spent a lot of time in the book on health care. you as the attorney general of virginia were the very first to sue the...
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margaret warner examines the charges against sulaiman abu ghaith, an al qaeda spokesman and son-in-law to osama bin laden, who appeared in a new york court today. >> suarez: from caracas, matt frei of "independent television news" reports on the state funeral for venezuelan president hugo chavez, attended by dignitaries from more than 50 nations. >> this feels less like a funeral and more like a celebration of immortality. the government has taken the decision not to bury him, but to embalm chavez, and keep him lying in state forever. >> brown: david brooks and ruth marcus analyze the week's news. >> suarez: and we close with a writer's reflections on the earthquake and tsunami that hit japan two years ago. >> i felt the need to go, and it's been this lifelong thing about japan that has called me. i wanted to hear the stories. i wanted to help people. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> support also comes from carnegie corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what andrew carnee lled "real and perm
margaret warner examines the charges against sulaiman abu ghaith, an al qaeda spokesman and son-in-law to osama bin laden, who appeared in a new york court today. >> suarez: from caracas, matt frei of "independent television news" reports on the state funeral for venezuelan president hugo chavez, attended by dignitaries from more than 50 nations. >> this feels less like a funeral and more like a celebration of immortality. the government has taken the decision not to bury...
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and what the president needs to do is simply follow the law and protect public health by cbing carbon pollution. the good news here is that clean energy in obama's second term is a lot cheaper than it was in his first term. the price of solar has dropped by almost 70%. the price of wind continues to decline. so much so that in 2012, solar and wind combined made up 58% of the new capacity that was added to the grid last year. so what we're seeing is that clean energy can take up more of the burden in terms of our energy demand than coal and gas and nuclear power can. so, the rule-makinghat scott wa ferrin to, the burden to make that rule actually stick is a lot lower than it used to be. of course, we always know that clean energy creates more jobs. at the same time that it cuts carbon pollution. the great news here is that we can have a win-win saiment. >> ifill: do you expect a big change? >> i don't expect a tremendous amount of change but the one thing that i believe will come even sharper into focus in the second term is that when i... you know, when i first came to washington and
and what the president needs to do is simply follow the law and protect public health by cbing carbon pollution. the good news here is that clean energy in obama's second term is a lot cheaper than it was in his first term. the price of solar has dropped by almost 70%. the price of wind continues to decline. so much so that in 2012, solar and wind combined made up 58% of the new capacity that was added to the grid last year. so what we're seeing is that clean energy can take up more of the...